The president of Bermuda College has racked up a travel bill of more than $6,000 this month with three trips abroad, according to new documents leaked to The Royal Gazette.

Taxpayers have forked out for Dr. Charles Green to visit Jamaica, St. Lucia and the US on college business during November.

Internal travel and subsistence forms for the three trips were sent to this newspaper yesterday by a source who did not identify themselves.

The disclosure comes just days after this newspaper produced a damning dossier of leaked documents alleging financial negligence at the college.

But last night Education Minister Randy Horton revealed that he was "not concerned" about the allegations surrounding the college.

He said he intended to announce a new chairman for the college's Board of Governors tomorrow and that "the new chairman of the board will have a mandate to address whatever concerns and allegations may have been made".

The first trip this month by Dr. Green — who came to the publicly funded college in 2003 on a $136,000-a-year salary — was to Kingston, Jamaica, between November 5 and 9 for an Association for Caribbean Tertiary Institutions conference.

The travel form shows that the trip cost the college $1,960.25.

That included $810.25 for airfare, $250 for the conference registration fee, $600 for four nights in a hotel and $300 for subsistence, such as food, taxis and other expenses.

Just two days after he returned from that trip, the president flew off the Island to visit Chicago's "public system", followed by a trip to Phoenix, Arizona, to view the Maricopa County health care systems.

That trip — lasting until November 17 — cost $1,831. The figure included $874 for plane tickets, $507 for his hotel stay and $450 subsistence.

On November 20, Dr. Green jetted to St. Lucia with three other staff members to attend a Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education conference.

His attendance cost the public purse $2,282.95. The airfare was $884.95, the conference registration fee was $250, his hotel stay cost $375 and there was $375 on expenses.

The form shows that the travel was approved in the departmental budget. It was signed off by the college's chief financial and operations officer Lloyd Christopher, as were the other two trips.

Evelyn James Barnett, the college's Director of Communications, said last night that all of the president's trips were for college business and had been approved by the college's Board of Governors.

"Because of the recent heightened interest in his itinerary, it is recommended that you direct future enquiries for details of his business travel to the board," she added.

Acting board chairman Pandora Wright has not responded to telephone and e-mail messages and did not answer a request by this newspaper to be allowed to attend a board meeting yesterday afternoon.

The Royal Gazette's sister paper, the Mid-Ocean News, reported last month that the college spent more than $53,000 on airline tickets between January and May this year for 175 individual staff trips.